Moon Phases
Seasons
Eclipses
Vocabulary
Daylight
100
Waning Gibbous
What is before a full moon?
100
The Earth revolving around the sun and the fact that the axis is tilted.
What causes the Earths seasons?
100
A lunar eclipse is when the shadow of the Earth covers the moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
100
Something that orbits something larger.
What is a satellite?
100
The Earth's axis.
What causes daylight hours?
200
Waning
What is it called when the moon looks like it is disappearing?
200
365 1/4 days.
How long does one revolution around the sun take?
200
When the moon's shadow covers part of the Earth.
What is a solar eclipse?
200
Everything that has a mass exerts a force pulling another object towards themselves.
What is gravity?
200
24 hours.
How long does one rotation of the Earth take?
300
New Moon
What is after a Waning crescent?
300
The sunlight would hit one side of the Earth while the other side gets no sunlight.
What would happen if the Earth's axis was not tilted?
300
The darkest part of a shadow.
What is an umbra?
300
When the position of the moon changes causing the moon to have a different appearance.
What is a lunar phase?
300
8 hours
How long is daytime during the winter solstice?
400
First Quarter
What is it called when the moon looks like half of a moon before a full moon?
400
Winter
When it is summer time north of the equator, what season is it south of the equator?
400
The part around the umbra.
What is a penumbra?
400
An event where the shadow of an object in space covers another object.
What is an eclipse?
400
12 hours
How long is daytime during the fall equinox?
500
About 1 month
How long does it take for the moon to make a full rotation around the Earth?
500
23.5 degrees
What is the tilt of the axis in degrees?
500
2017
When will the next solar eclipse visible from the US be?
500
When the sunlight shines directly on both the Northern and southern hemispheres.
What is an equinox?
500
12 hours
How long is night time during the spring equinox?
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